A Troubled Child

In the short story The Drowning Incident, there's a boy who i think is no more than 15 years old. I don't really like him all that much. He kills a cricket, feeds it to a black widow, then spits on it. He seems like a very troubled child. In the end, it seems as though he has some issues with the baby being the family. He also had some puppies and had to give them away, so I think that when finding the puppies at the creek it brings back memories of having dogs. I'm not quite sure who he is waiting for, but this kid has problems. To lay a dead puppy in the bed with a baby is a problem.

What goes around, comes around

Saboteur, in my mind, has a really good moral that is spelled out pretty blandly. I think the moral of this short story is basically you get what you give. When the police officer poured the tea on the tourist, I guarantee he felt that he is above the law. When Ha Jin says, "The man grinned, rolling his bulgy eyes and pointing his fingers at him as if firing a pistol (171).", he is reffering to the officer who had poured the tea and harrassed him as he was arresting him for nothing. I have an experience in which i noticed the sherriff here in Granbury over abusing his power and putting himself above the law. I was following him on the outskirts of town and when the speed limit went to seventy he took off and was doing eighty. As a cop passed he flipped his lights on and off and didn't get pulled over. I completely disagree with this and in the long run, what goes around comes around. In the story, after treating Chiu liked some kind of murderer and forcing him to give in to them almost everyone in the city caught hepatitis. In my experience, not ten miles down the road the sherriff had been pulled over by a state trooper who was writing him a ticket. I love this moral because a lot of times it takes personal incidents before you can understand the true meaning of it and i feel that when it happens to you, it sinks in a little further.